The second novel narrated by this character is a parody of The Prisoner of Zenda in which Otto von Bismarck blackmails him into posing as a Danish prince and marrying Duchess Irma of Strackenz. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this cowardly rake whose “papers” form a series of novels by George McDonald Fraser. In his first literary appearance, this creation of Thomas Hughes is expelled from Rugby School for drunkenness.
ANSWER: Harry Flashman [or Sir Harry Paget Flashman; accept The Flashman Papers]
[10e] Flashman is a major antagonist in Hughes's Tom Brown's School Days, which depicts Rugby School under a headmaster with this surname. The headmaster's son of the same surname wrote “Dover Beach.”
ANSWER: Arnold [accept Thomas Arnold or Matthew Arnold]
[10m] Thomas Arnold's outsized influence on the classics-obsessed British public school system is criticized in the third of four biographies collected in this 1918 book by a member of the Bloomsbury Group.
ANSWER: Eminent Victorians (by Lytton Strachey)
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